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Wednesday, November 20, 2013

Transportation and the New Generation: Is the Driving Boom Over?

U.S. PIRG Senior Analyst Phineas Baxandall and Frontier Group
Senior Policy Analyst Tony Dutzik will talk about the implications
of changing driving trends in the United States. For decades,
public officials and transportation planners have assumed that the
number of miles driven can go in only one direction--up. Nearly a
decade of stagnating vehicle travel in the U.S., the arrival of a
Millennial generation more open to urban and car-light lifestyles,
and an explosion of new technology-enabled transportation choices
are forcing a reexamination of this assumption. Is this an
opportunity to rethink our transportation priorities in fundamental
ways?

Phineas was Assistant Director at the Kennedy School’s Taubman
Center and Rappaport Institute before joining U.S. PIRG Education
Fund in 2006. He taught political economy for eight years at
Harvard’s Social Studies program.

Tony has spent the past 12 years as a policy analyst with Frontier
Group, a non-profit multi-issue policy think tank, where he has
written extensively on transportation, energy, global warming and
other issues.